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Shares that like February

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the best returns in February over the last ten years. For example, Fidessa has an average return of 15.1% for the month of February. Each stock has risen in February in nine of the past ten years.

Shares that dislike February

The following table lists the two FTSE 350 shares that have the worst returns in February over the last ten years. For example, AstraZeneca has an average return of -3.7% for the month of February. Both these two stocks have fallen in February in eight of the past ten years.

An equally-weighted portfolio of the above strong February stocks would have out-performed every year an equally-weighted portfolio of the above weak February stocks by an average of 12.6 percentage points in February for the past ten years.

The 2013 edition of the Almanac looks at the historic monthly performance of the FTSE 350 sectors. Here we look at the Mobile Telecommunications sector.

The following chart plots the average out-performance of the FTSE 350 Mobile Telecommunications sector over the FTSE 100 Index by month since 2006. For example, since 2006 on average the Mobile Telecommunications sector has under-performed the FTSE 100 Index by 2.7 percentage points in February.

Observations:

The strongest months of the year relative to the market for the sector have been September and December, the sector has only under-performed the market in two years since 2006 in September.

The sector has been relatively weak in February and April, the sector has only out-performed the market in two years since 2006 in February.

The two stocks in the FTSE 350 Mobile Telecommunications sector [NMX6570] are-

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the best historic returns in February over the last ten years. For example, Fidessa has an average return of 14.9% for the month of February. Each stock has risen in nine of the past ten years in February.

Company

TIDM

Avg(%)

Fidessa Group

FDSA

14.9

Imagination Technologies Group

IMG

13.5

Croda International

CRDA

9.6

Xstrata

XTA

8.3

Provident Financial

PFG

7.0

A portfolio of these five stocks would have out-performed the FTSE 350 Index in every February over the last ten years with an average out-performance of 9.5 percentage points each February.

Shares that dislike February

The following table lists the five FTSE 350 shares that have the worst historic returns in February over the last ten years. For example, AstraZeneca has an average return of -3.5% for the month of February. Each stock has fallen in at least seven of the past ten years in February.

Company

TIDM

Avg(%)

Greene King

GNK

-1.4

AVEVA Group

AVV

-1.5

Vodafone Group

VOD

-1.7

BTG

BTG

-2.5

AstraZeneca

AZN

-3.5

A portfolio of these five stocks would have under-performed the FTSE 350 Index in every February over the last ten years with an average under-performance of 3.3 percentage points each February.